A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox(1961)

movie - first aired/released 1961-12-24 - 89 min - audience 8.0

Comedy

Directed by Seiji Hisamatsu

Third film in the "Ekimae" series, this time set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko asks for advice from her childhood friends Kintaro, a textile manufacturer, and Magosaku, an entrepreneur, about a big-shot from Osaka who wants to invest in her shop. However, Kintaro and Magosaku suspect that things are not what they seem...